Hello all!
Purely by accident, I've found myself reading some of the strangest books I could (or more likely couldn't have) imagined. As a result, I am hooked. I've tasted the wildness of the literary world, and like a junkie, I need more!
It started with House Of Leaves. A coworker gave me his treasured copy, and I dove in knowing nothing about it. I was immediately hooked. To those of you who haven't read it, I can't suggest it highly enough. It is probably my favourite book thst I've read in the last several years.
From there, my journey expanded. In no particular order, I have experienced:
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvini
- The Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin
- Also several other works by Sorokin
- Nearly everything that Haruki Murakami has published
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
To name a few. I'm looking for things in a similar vein as House Of Leaves, or If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, which either warps the text itself, or involves you the reader as a character.
Hopefully you folks have read similar things, and have some good suggestions! I'm getting desperate for my next fix!
by CaptainBrandName
3 Comments
*Vita Nostra* by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko doesn’t have any cool story framing device, but the story itself starts normal and then the weirdness starts to stack up. The less you know the better.
If you read Annihilation you gotta keep going and read the other two parts of the trilogy.
I’d say Under the Skin falls under *weird sci-fi* genre.
To mention some classics: Metamorphosis by Kafka.
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